ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Feb 22, 2016 9:01 am #41658 Hi all,
I'm starting with ESP8266 a simple project based on ESP8266 WiFiWebServer example, to connect my ESP to my HOME WIFI and it works fine, but now I need a way to get IP and MAC Address of the client that ask the ESP for a web page.

I found a solution but it works only if I make the ESP as AP STATION, so I can query *stat_info to get information on all clients connected.

Any solution for simple ESP client?

Thanks in advance.

- Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:02 am #43016 Getting the IP address of the calling client seems to be easy enough:

Code: Select allwebserver->client().remoteIP().toString()

where webserver is a:

Code: Select allESP8266WebServer* webserver;

The MAC address looks to be a bit more challenging though - I don't see any available method in the arduino core that enables this. Perhaps there's something in the underlying SDK..not sure.

- Sun Mar 13, 2016 12:49 pm #43023 WiFi.macAddress()

- Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:31 pm #43029

WiFi.macAddress()

Unfortunately, this gives MAC of the server, not the MAC of the client connected to the server ...